November, 25th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Monday 25, 2002:
Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov

Thursday 25, 1999:
The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women.

Friday 25, 1994:
Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the floundering company.

Wednesday 25, 1992:
The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia starting on January 1, 1993.

Tuesday 25, 1986:
Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

Sunday 25, 1984:
A KCR train goes off track between Sheung Shui and Fanling.

Tuesday 25, 1980:
No Más Fight: Sugar Ray Leonard recovers the WBC world welterweight boxing title in a fight against Roberto Duran.

Tuesday 25, 1975:
Suriname becomes independent.

Sunday 25, 1973:
Greek President George Papadopoulos is ousted in military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis.

Wednesday 25, 1970:
In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after failing to sway public opinion during an unsuccessful coup attempt.

Monday 25, 1963:
John F. Kennedy assassination: John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Friday 25, 1960:
The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic were assassinated .

Tuesday 25, 1958:
French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.

Wednesday 25, 1953:
The England football team suffer their first home defeat against continental opposition

Tuesday 25, 1952:
Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, still the longest continuously running play in history).

Tuesday 25, 1947:
New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.

Saturday 25, 1944:
World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, killing 160 shoppers.

Monday 25, 1940:
Woody Woodpecker first appears, in the film "Knock Knock".

Wednesday 25, 1936:
In Berlin, Nazi-Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.

Tuesday 25, 1913:
Panama becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Saturday 25, 1905:
Haakon VII arrives in Norway.

Saturday 25, 1876:
Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.

Wednesday 25, 1874:
The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.

Wednesday 25, 1863:
At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

Wednesday 25, 1795:
Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, was forced to abdicate and move to Russia.

Tuesday 25, 1783:
American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

Saturday 25, 1758:
French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.

Wednesday 25, 1542:
Battle of Solway Moss. An English army invades Scotland and defeats a Scottish army.

Wednesday 25, 1491:
The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.

Friday 25, 1177:
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeats Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.

Thursday 25, 1120:
Wreck of the White Ship in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.

Tuesday 25, 1034:
Malcolm II of Scotland dies. Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherits the throne.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/25-november/on-this-day.html


People born on November 25

1996:
Shasta Groene, kidnapping victim (b: November 25, 1996) (Biography of Shasta Groene)

1979:
Thea Gilmore, British singer and songwriter (b: November 25, 1979) (Biography of Thea Gilmore)

1978:
Shina Ringo, Japanese musician, singer, and songwriter (b: November 25, 1978) (Biography of Shina Ringo)

1971:
Christina Applegate, American actress (b: November 25, 1971) (Biography of Christina Applegate)
Magnus Arvedson, Swedish hockey player (b: November 25, 1971) (Biography of Magnus Arvedson)

1966:
Tim Armstrong, American musician (Rancid/The Transplants) (b: November 25, 1966) (Biography of Tim Armstrong)

1965:
Cris Carter, American football player (b: November 25, 1965) (Biography of Cris Carter)
Bernie Kosar, American football player (b: November 25, 1965) (Biography of Bernie Kosar)

1960:
Amy Grant, American singer (b: November 25, 1960) (Biography of Amy Grant)
John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (b: November 25, 1960) (Biography of John F. Kennedy, Jr.)

1959:
Charles Kennedy, British politician (b: November 25, 1959) (Biography of Charles Kennedy)

1952:
Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer (b: November 25, 1952) (Biography of Imran Khan)

1947:
John Larroquette, American actor (b: November 25, 1947) (Biography of John Larroquette)

1944:
Ben Stein, American actor, game show host, and political consultant (b: November 25, 1944) (Biography of Ben Stein)

1940:
Reinhard Furrer, American physicist and astronaut (b: November 25, 1940) (Biography of Reinhard Furrer)
Joe Gibbs, American football coach (b: November 25, 1940) (Biography of Joe Gibbs)

1933:
Kathryn Grant, American actress (b: November 25, 1933) (Biography of Kathryn Grant)

1926:
Poul Anderson, American writer (b: November 25, 1926 ; d: July 31, 2001) (Biography of Poul Anderson)

1925:
Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b: November 25, 1925) (Biography of Jeffrey Hunter)
Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballerina (b: November 25, 1925) (Biography of Maya Plisetskaya)

1924:
Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher. (b: November 25, 1924) (Biography of Takaaki Yoshimoto)

1920:
Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (b: November 25, 1920) (Biography of Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail)
Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor (b: November 25, 1920) (Biography of Ricardo Montalban)
Noel Neill, American actress (b: November 25, 1920) (Biography of Noel Neill)

1915:
Augusto Pinochet, Chilean politician (b: November 25, 1915) (Biography of Augusto Pinochet)

1914:
Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (b: November 25, 1914 ; d: March 8, 1999) (Biography of Joe DiMaggio)

1913:
Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b: November 25, 1913) (Biography of Lewis Thomas)

1904:
Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b: November 25, 1904 ; d: July 7, 1964) (Biography of Lillian Copeland)
Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (b: November 25, 1904) (Biography of Ba Jin)

1896:
Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (b: November 25, 1896) (Biography of Virgil Thomson)

1895:
Wilhelm Kempff, German conductor (b: November 25, 1895 ; d: May 23, 1991) (Biography of Wilhelm Kempff)
Ludvík Svoboda President of Czechoslovakia (b: November 25, 1895) (Biography of Ludvík Svoboda)

1883:
Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (b: November 25, 1883 ; d: January 26, 1968) (Biography of Merrill C. Meigs)
Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (b: November 25, 1883 ; d: August 2, 1939) (Biography of Harvey Spencer Lewis)

1881:
Pope John XXIII (b: November 25, 1881) (Biography of Pope John XXIII)

1874:
Joe Gans, American boxer (b: November 25, 1874) (Biography of Joe Gans)

1846:
Carry Nation, American temperance advocate (b: November 25, 1846) (Biography of Carry Nation)

1844:
Karl Benz, German engineer (b: November 25, 1844) (Biography of Karl Benz)

1835:
Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist (b: November 25, 1835 ; d: August 11, 1919) (Biography of Andrew Carnegie)

1817:
John Bigelow, American statesman, author (b: November 25, 1817) (Biography of John Bigelow)

1814:
Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b: November 25, 1814 ; d: March 20, 1878) (Biography of Julius Robert von Mayer)

1703:
Jean François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (b: November 25, 1703) (Biography of Jean François Séguier)

1638:
Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II of England (b: November 25, 1638 ; d: November 30, 1705) (Biography of Catherine of Braganza)

1609:
Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b: November 25, 1609 ; d: September 10, 1669) (Biography of Henrietta Maria)

1577:
Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (b: November 25, 1577 ; d: June 18, 1629) (Biography of Piet Hein (Netherlands))

1562:
Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright (b: November 25, 1562 ; d: August 27, 1635) (Biography of Félix Lope de Vega)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/25-november/births.html

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They left us on November 25

2002:
Karel Reisz (d: November 25, 2002) (Biography of Karel Reisz)

1998:
Flip Wilson, American comedian (b: December 8, 1933 ; d: November 25, 1998) (Biography of Flip Wilson)

1981:
Jack Albertson, American actor (b: June 16, 1907 ; d: November 25, 1981) (Biography of Jack Albertson)

1974:
U Thant, Burmese United Nations Secretary General (b: January 22, 1909 ; d: November 25, 1974) (Biography of U Thant)
Nick Drake, British guitarist (b: June 19, 1948 ; d: November 25, 1974) (Biography of Nick Drake)

1973:
Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (b: October 1, 1928 ; d: November 25, 1973) (Biography of Laurence Harvey)

1972:
Henri Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b: June 7, 1886 ; d: November 25, 1972) (Biography of Henri Coanda)

1970:
Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b: January 14, 1925 ; d: November 25, 1970) (Biography of Yukio Mishima)

1968:
Upton Sinclair, American writer and politician (b: September 20, 1878 ; d: November 25, 1968) (Biography of Upton Sinclair)

1965:
Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b: February 25, 1890 ; d: November 25, 1965) (Biography of Myra Hess)

1959:
Gérard Philipe, French actor (b: December 4, 1922 ; d: November 25, 1959) (Biography of Gérard Philipe)

1950:
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b: January 20, 1873 ; d: November 25, 1950) (Biography of Johannes Vilhelm Jensen)

1947:
Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b: March 4, 1876 ; d: November 25, 1947) (Biography of Léon-Paul Fargue)

1944:
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge and first baseball commissioner (b: November 20, 1866 ; d: November 25, 1944) (Biography of Kenesaw Mountain Landis)

1920:
Gaston Chevrolet (d: November 25, 1920) (Biography of Gaston Chevrolet)

1884:
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b: September 27, 1818 ; d: November 25, 1884) (Biography of Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe)

1881:
Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b: April 9, 1794 ; d: November 25, 1881) (Biography of Theobald Boehm)

1865:
Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b: February 16, 1821 ; d: November 25, 1865) (Biography of Heinrich Barth)

1755:
Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b: December 26, 1687 ; d: November 25, 1755) (Biography of Johann Georg Pisendel)

1748:
Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (b: July 17, 1674 ; d: November 25, 1748) (Biography of Isaac Watts)

1700:
Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (b: May 7, 1643 ; d: November 25, 1700) (Biography of Stephanus Van Cortlandt)

1694:
Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b: September 28, 1605 ; d: November 25, 1694) (Biography of Ismael Bullialdus)

1626:
Edward Alleyn, English actor (b: September 1, 1566 ; d: November 25, 1626) (Biography of Edward Alleyn)

1560:
Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b: November 30, 1466 ; d: November 25, 1560) (Biography of Andrea Doria)

1456:
Jacques C?ur (d: November 25, 1456) (Biography of Jacques C?ur)

1374:
Philip II of Taranto (d: November 25, 1374) (Biography of Philip II of Taranto)

1326:
Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b: May 26, 1264 ; d: November 25, 1326) (Biography of Prince Koreyasu)

1185:
Pope Lucius III (d: November 25, 1185) (Biography of Pope Lucius III)

1034:
Malcolm II of Scotland (d: November 25, 1034) (Biography of Malcolm II of Scotland)

311:
Peter of Alexandria (d: November 25, 311) (Biography of Peter of Alexandria)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/25-november/deaths.html